‘[Bus referral to Competition Commission] is needed and I am over the moon’

Clayton Jones, Proprietor, Heart of Wales Bus & Coach Company

Clayton Jones, Proprietor, Heart of Wales Bus & Coach Company

When a private company engages in unfair practices to maintain a dominant market position, that’s disappointing - but understandable. Public companies have shareholders to pacify. They are more often than not, owned by pension funds that need profits to keep the elderly heated warmed and fed. It’s not difficult to see why they have sometimes tried to keep their best routes free of competition. After all, these are the geese that lay golden eggs.  

But what if the...